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Re: Brilliant understanding and an equally brilliant presentation
Thanks Bhaskar. I'm humbled by your comment.
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AardigeAfrikaner
on August 29, 2008 at 2:51 AM
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It is an equal honor to be read by you.
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AardigeAfrikaner
on August 29, 2008 at 2:49 AM
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Re: Nicely Done
Your comment reminds me of something a friend of mine once said: Philosophy leads nowhere but is essential.
It is a good stimulant for thinking but never really able to get to its goal. Thanks for visiting.
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AardigeAfrikaner
on August 29, 2008 at 2:47 AM
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Brilliant understanding and an equally brilliant presentation
Right on, bull's eye. "Absolute truth is within the realm of experience but it is non-conceptual whilst relative truth is as close to absolute truth with words and other signifiers." That is why experience is like taste and becomes almost difficult to explain to anyone who has never tasted. How can taste be put in words? And that is why another irony of the phenomenon arises is that those who have experienced enlightenment can not express what happened, and those who say, have not experienced. Milestones, as pointers, can aptly describe enlightened ones, and the best is that they assure one that the direction is right.
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Bhaskar.ing
on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
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this is damn good work! it's honor to read!LeState
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lestate7
on August 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM
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Nicely Done
I think you nailed this one. Very good presentation of the limits of scientific knowledge, which is limited both by our ability to observe and our ability to communicate what we observe. In my experience, it is philosophers, and not scientists, that take exception to our inability to arrive at and share absolute truth. They simply define absolute truth as "what can be known", placing human observers in the place of a god and declaring what can't be know (or shared accurately) as not real. But there are, I admit, lots of scientists I don't know.
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mousehop
on August 27, 2008 at 6:51 AM
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